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bl00dninja · Oct 7th, 2005, 1:43 AM

yeah and only use while/wend and for. that other crap doesn't even exist in the real world. (don't remember if the do loop is do-while or do until)

InfoGeek · Oct 7th, 2005, 1:43 AM

then what did you learn in the 3/4 of year? :eek: Placing buttons on the forms!
Loops are pretty begineer stuff. It should be in the first week or so.

bl00dninja · Oct 7th, 2005, 2:26 AM

i had that same exact thought process! yeah, there's not really a lot of ground to cover before you start dealing with loops.

Ooble · Oct 8th, 2005, 2:01 PM

That's odd - when we started Pascal in class last year, we did loops in our second week.

By the way, loops in Pascal suck - you get while-begin...end loops, and repeat...until loops. Who the hell came up with the syntax for these buggers?

bl00dninja · Oct 9th, 2005, 1:17 AM

yeah i saw VB had like 3 or 4 totally redundant looping constructs and i was like "fuck this"...then i took my midterm in VB and totally fucked up a bunch of stuff and my instructor gave me a 98 on the test (i'm assuming b/c of my programming projects and things i had mentioned in class).

"loop until" vs. "while"

in C++ just add a '!' charcter in your condition statement and you have removed the need for this crappy function being added to every damn VB prog you make.

i still respect BASIC as a language and i know it has it's uses, but in retrospect this is a horrible language for intro CS classes. we had 10 VB projects for the semester, i did the first 8 in the first couple weeks of class, but the last two require more info, so i have to wait.....arrrggghhhhhhh!!!!!!! but yeah, next semester i get to take a class (intro to C++) that introduces nothing new but using a "stack class". (final project). college is gay. and i have to work at mcdonald's full-time to pay for this.

Ooble · Oct 9th, 2005, 7:57 AM

What's wrong with, I dunno, coding for money?

Oct 7th, 2005, 1:43 AM	#21
bl00dninja Programming Guru Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: namespace std Posts: 1,246 Rep Power: 5	yeah and only use while/wend and for. that other crap doesn't even exist in the real world. (don't remember if the do loop is do-while or do until) __________________ i put on my robe and wizard hat... Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?...Morons.

Oct 7th, 2005, 1:43 AM	#22
InfoGeek Professional Programmer Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: India, The great. Posts: 435 Rep Power: 4	then what did you learn in the 3/4 of year? :eek: Placing buttons on the forms! Loops are pretty begineer stuff. It should be in the first week or so. __________________ PFO - My daily dose of technology.

Oct 7th, 2005, 2:26 AM	#23
bl00dninja Programming Guru Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: namespace std Posts: 1,246 Rep Power: 5	i had that same exact thought process! yeah, there's not really a lot of ground to cover before you start dealing with loops. __________________ i put on my robe and wizard hat... Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?...Morons.

Oct 8th, 2005, 2:01 PM	#24
Ooble I eat cake for breakfast. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In my box. Posts: 4,434 Rep Power: 9	That's odd - when we started Pascal in class last year, we did loops in our second week. By the way, loops in Pascal suck - you get while-begin...end loops, and repeat...until loops. Who the hell came up with the syntax for these buggers? __________________ Me :: You :: Them

Oct 9th, 2005, 1:17 AM	#25
bl00dninja Programming Guru Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: namespace std Posts: 1,246 Rep Power: 5	yeah i saw VB had like 3 or 4 totally redundant looping constructs and i was like "fuck this"...then i took my midterm in VB and totally fucked up a bunch of stuff and my instructor gave me a 98 on the test (i'm assuming b/c of my programming projects and things i had mentioned in class). "loop until" vs. "while" in C++ just add a '!' charcter in your condition statement and you have removed the need for this crappy function being added to every damn VB prog you make. i still respect BASIC as a language and i know it has it's uses, but in retrospect this is a horrible language for intro CS classes. we had 10 VB projects for the semester, i did the first 8 in the first couple weeks of class, but the last two require more info, so i have to wait.....arrrggghhhhhhh!!!!!!! but yeah, next semester i get to take a class (intro to C++) that introduces nothing new but using a "stack class". (final project). college is gay. and i have to work at mcdonald's full-time to pay for this. __________________ i put on my robe and wizard hat... Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?...Morons.

Oct 9th, 2005, 7:57 AM	#26
Ooble I eat cake for breakfast. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: In my box. Posts: 4,434 Rep Power: 9	What's wrong with, I dunno, coding for money? __________________ Me :: You :: Them

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